Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:36:42 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] livepatch: add atomic replace |
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> 3. Drop immediate. It causes problems only and its advantages on x86_64 > are theoretical. You would still need to solve the interaction with atomic > replace on other architecture with immediate preserved, but that may be > easier. Or we can be aggressive and drop immediate completely. The force > transition I proposed earlier could achieve the same.
After brief off-thread discussion, I've been thinking about this a bit more and I also think that we should claim immediate "an experiment that failed", especially as the force functionality (which provides equal functionality from the userspace POV) will likely be there sonnish.
Thanks,
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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